Boeing Selected to Launch WorldView-2

Boeing News Release

2008 April 16

ST. LOUIS -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], through its commercial launch
business, Boeing Launch Services, has been awarded a contract to launch
DigitalGlobe's second WorldView Earth-imaging satellite on a Delta II launch
vehicle.

DigitalGlobe is the provider of the world's highest-resolution commercial
satellite imagery and geospatial information products. Boeing successfully
launched the first satellite in the series, WorldView-1, from Vandenberg Air
Force Base, Calif., on Sept. 18, 2007.

"Boeing Launch Services looks forward to providing DigitalGlobe with another
successful WorldView launch," said Boeing Launch Services Vice President Ken
Heinly. "The Delta II has been instrumental in the deployment of DigitalGlobe's
satellites, and we look forward to many more launches for them in the future."

A Delta II expendable launch vehicle will carry the WorldView-2 spacecraft into
orbit from Vandenberg in mid-2009. Boeing Launch Services purchases the launch
vehicle and related support from United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed
Martin joint venture.

"We are pleased with the continued collaboration with Boeing to provide launch
services for WorldView-2 and this important program," said Jill Smith,
DigitalGlobe president and CEO.

Boeing Launch Services markets, contracts and executes Delta launch services for
commercial customers. It is part of the Space Exploration division of Boeing
Integrated Defense Systems and is based in Huntington Beach, Calif.

This story was originally titled "Boeing Awarded Launch Services Contract for 2nd WorldView Satellite".